{"id":2217,"date":"2023-11-28T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2023-11-29T09:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:22:01","slug":"mexico-oaxaca-truck-blackwhite-documentary-photography-myoaxaca-timporter-teococuilco-sierranorte-quinceanera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"My Oaxaca: La Troca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nothing says rural like a cast-off truck. Doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a rusted dually in Texas, a well-weathered flatbed in Montana or \u2013 in this case \u2013 the cab-end of semi sitting askew on a Mexican ridgetop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first, and only, photojournalism teacher, a wonderful photographer and an even better human being, Fran Ortiz of the now defunct Hearst-version of the San Francisco Examiner, used to tell us wannabe phototoggers: Be sure to look behind you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what I did on a winter day in Teococuilco de Marcus P\u00e9rez, Oaxaca, where I\u2019d gone to photograph the quincea\u00f1era of a lovely set of twins, the daughters of this truck\u2019s owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything in front of me was loco \u2013 a tent the size of a soccer field, a stage holding a dozen musicians, a plastic dance floor lit with color lights, a dozen tables of food, towers of cases of beer, parents, godparents, relatives, five hundred of the town\u2019s residents, and, of course, the two beaming se\u00f1oritas, who achieved fifteen years during COVID and had to wait a full year more in order to have their day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind me, it was the full opposite, nothing but tranquilo: the serrated crest of the Sierra Norte, dots of distant villages, and the sky dressed in its own extravagance, as if it knew it was party time. And a truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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